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R.9.
éphejsanr,
Chap.:.
zs;
from
fin
and
death,
and accepting
of
us as
righteous
to
life
:
Now
how
plainly the one and
the other
is
grounded
in
him, I
leave it to
their
judgement
who
are any thing experienced
in
the Scripture;
God
Lath
Pent
his Son,
that
we
might live in him.
He
bath
made
us
righteous
in him.
He
is
Jehovah,
oar righteeufne(fe. He
ú
made unto us wifdom,
rigbteoufneff
e, e7c. That
which
:vas
impo(Pi61e
to
the flefh, being
weak,
God
fent
his
Son,
&c.
that
the righteoafne
fe
of
the Lawmight
be
fulfilled
in us,
Rom.
8.3.
But it
is
objeoìed
,
firfl, from
the
names
whereof
it
is
called
,
as
a
Reward, Wages,
a
Crown,
a
Prize, the Penny.
Secondly, from the Covenant.
Thirdly,
from the
c
fficiencie
which the
Scripture feemeth to place
in works to this purpofe.
Fourthly, from the
rule after
which
falvation
is
diiliibuted.
Fifthly, from the
juflice
of
God.
Sixthly, from the abfurdities
of
the contrary Doctrine.
To
the
firft I
anfwer,
the
names
of
Reward, Wages, Prize,
&c.
are figuratively
to be conceived, that look
what the
prize
and
crown
is
to
him
that firiveth
and
fighteth,
what
recompence
is
to
him
that
giveth ought
,
what wages
to
him
that
labourech
,
the
fame is
glory
to him
that receiveth it.
Again,
it
is
all there
of
grace,
and
free,
nor,
of
defert and debt.
Secondly, whereas
it
is
objeeted from the Covenant. I anfwer,'
we
are under no
Covenant
of
Works.
But
the Gofpcl
faith,
if
ye
mortifie
the
deeds
of
the
flefb,
ye
/hall
live.
I
anfwer,
fuch promifes do
tell
us,
[Who]
shall
live,
not [Why]
they
(hall live.
Secondly
,
they
are made
to
perfons now by Faith
already
in
Chrift
,
and
fo firft justified and favcd.
That
Queflion,
What
/hall we do
to
be faved
t
It
faith, Beleeve.
But
Chrift
anfwer
-
ed,
Do this
and
live.
1
anfwer, there are
two
forts
of promifcs,
Le-
gall and
Euangelicali.
Thefe
are
generali,
as
for juflitìcation and
life
:
fpeciall, fuch
as
are given
for the
exercifing
of
Faith
in
the be-
leever.
Now
to know the
difference
betwixt Legali
and Euangeli.
call, general! and
fpeciall,
will make
us fee
what
we are
to
account
of
this
Objection.
The
Legali and Euangclicall
differ
thus
;
Thefe latter
are
made
in
Chrift
:
thofe otherwife for obedience
full and
perfeel,perforined by
the perfon himfelf.
But
how do
there fpeciall promifes
differ
from the generali
in
the Gofpel
In the
fubject, the condition,
the end.
r.While
they are
as
feed;
and
as a
way
gone,which doth
bring
us
to
a treafure freely
bellowed.
z. While they do
increafe Faith ,
while
we look
for
in
well
doing,
or
fuffering,
our
Faith, which
is an
inftrumcntall caufe, more and
more
is
ftrengthened,
and fo
confequently more
and
more
falvation
is
apprehended;
and
thus
I
think
that the word
étygsrea
fhould
be
Z
3
conftrued.
Objet.
2.
3.
2.
1.
Objet.
Rom. 8.13.
Anfw.
Promifes
Le-
gall
and Euam
gelicalb
Queff.
e/Inf.